John Guare (b. 1938) is the author of more than twenty full-length and one-act plays, which have earned him Tony, Obie, and New York Drama Critics Circle awards. Among his best-known works are the plays
The House of Blue Leaves (1971) and
Six Degrees of Separation (1990), as well as the screenplay for the film
Atlantic City (1980), directed by Louis Malle. He is the recipient of the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Tony Kushner, editor, is a playwright best known for his two-part epic drama,
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. His other plays include
A Bright Room Called Day,
Slavs!,
Hydrotaphia, and
Homebody/Kabul. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols's television adaptation of
Angels in America and the screenplays for Steven Spielberg's
Munich,
Lincoln,
West Side Story, and The
Fabelmans.
Anne Cattaneo, editor, is the dramaturg of Lincoln Center Theater and the creator and head of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. She is the author of
The Art of Dramaturgy.
Michael Paller, editor, is a dramaturg and the author of
A Five-Act Play: 50 Years of A.C.T. and
Gentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama. He currently teaches at the Columbia University School of the Arts.